Question

Item 10 At 1:00 P.M., you have 24 megabytes of a movie. At 1:15 P.M., you have 96 megabytes. What is the download rate in megabytes per minute?

Answer 1

4.8 megabytes / minute.

Explanation:

At the beginning of recording the download you have 24 megabytes.

15 minutes later, you have 96 megabytes.

In 15 minutes you have downloaded 96 - 24 = 72 megabytes

So the question turns out to be a proportion of

x megabytes / 1 minute = 72 megabytes / 15 minutes.

x = 72/15

x = 4.8 megabytes / minute